News
Iran Is Winning the AI Slop Propaganda War
“White House videos—AI or otherwise—are like group-chat in-jokes aimed at keeping cohesion.”
News
Google Updates Ad Policy to Ban All AI-Generated Porn
Google will now ban all ads for “synthetic sexually explicit content,” even if the ad itself is not explicit.
nypd
NYPD Produces Propaganda Instead of Legally Required Public Records
NYPD was able to spin out a hype video in less than 24 hours, which is notable because New York City has been horrendously slow to producing public records they are obligated by law to provide to the taxpayers who fund them.
News
Pokémon Go Players Invent Fake Beaches on Real Maps to Catch Rare Wigletts
Volunteer maintainers of the widely used OpenStreetMap are battling Pokémon Go players who are vandalizing the map with fake data in order to cheat in the game.
AI
Facebook’s AI Spam Isn’t the ‘Dead Internet’: It’s the Zombie Internet
Facebook is the zombie internet, where a mix of bots, humans, and accounts that were once humans but aren’t anymore interact to form a disastrous website where there is little social connection at all.
AI
Flood of AI-Generated Submissions ‘Final Straw’ for Small 22-Year-Old Publisher
“The problem with AI is the people who use AI. They don't respect the written word,” the founder of Bards and Sages said.
columbia
Bike Lock NYPD Insists Is 'Industrial' Protest Tool Is a Normal Lock Recommended by Columbia University
Columbia University allowed police to storm campus Tuesday night, and Wednesday morning, the NYPD Deputy Commissioner accused student protestors of using an "industrial" chain to barricade doors.
ChatGPT
National Archives Bans Employee Use of ChatGPT
The agency tasked with preserving the historical record is banning ChatGPT, citing the possibility that the tool would leak internal information.
Podcast
Podcast: A Lost Media Mystery
The source of a long mysterious 17-second snippet of music; a service that scraped and sold Discord server messages; and influencers using fake, AI-powered livestream apps.
AI
Do You Like These AI Images of Dying, Mutilated Children? Facebook Algorithm Wonders
Facebook's recommendation engine, which is core to the company's business model, is injecting grotesque images of AI-generated child gore into people's feeds.
AI
Men Use Fake Livestream Apps With AI Audiences to Hit on Women
"I downloaded this app called Parallel Live which makes it look like you have tens of thousands of people watching. Instantly, I became the life of the party."
Lost Media
Long Lost Song Hunted By Thousands Found in 80s Porno
The search is over for 'Everyone Knows That,' also known as 'Ulterior Motives' by Christopher Saint Booth, when it was found in the pornographic film "Angels of Passion."
Wikipedia
Russia Clones Wikipedia, Censors It, Bans Original
Ruviki is intended to be a more “trustworthy” source of information for Russians by editing out anything that makes the Russian government look bad.
